28.3639, Calls: Gen Ling/USA

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Subject: 28.3639, Calls: Gen Ling/USA

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Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2017 13:57:25
From: Robert Klosinski [robert.klosinski at psu.edu]
Subject: Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 24

 
Full Title: Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 24 
Short Title: GLAC 24 

Date: 11-May-2018 - 12-May-2018
Location: University Park, PA, USA 
Contact Person: Robert Klosinski
Meeting Email: glac at psu.edu
Web Site: http://sites.psu.edu/glac2018/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Language Family(ies): Germanic 

Call Deadline: 02-Feb-2018 

Meeting Description:

The Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC) is the annual conference of
the Society for Germanic Linguistics(SGL), an organization serving the broad
community of scholarsteaching and researching in Germanic linguistics and
philology. GLAC 24 will take place on May 11-12, 2018, at the historic Nittany
Lion Inn on the campus of Penn State University. Further information about the
Society for Germanic Linguistics (SGL), and about past conferences, is
available at http://german.lss.wisc.edu/~sgl.

Plenary speakers for GLAC 24:

- Rob Howell, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Monika Schmid, University of Essex

Organizing Committee: 

- Richard Page, chair, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and
Literatures
- Carrie Jackson, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures
- Michael Putnam, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures
- Katharina Schuhmann, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and
Literatures


Call for Papers:

The organizers of the Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 24 (GLAC),
sponsored by Penn State University, invite faculty,graduate students, and
independent scholars to submit abstracts to the conference, which will be held
on the Penn State campus on May 11-12, 2018.

We are able to offer two options for participating in GLAC 24:

– 30-minute paper presentations on research (20 minute talk, 10 minute
question period)
– Posters presenting research

Papers and posters may be on any linguistic or philological aspect of any
historical or modern Germanic language or dialect, including English (to the
Early Modern period) and the extraterritorial varieties. Papers from the full
range of linguistic and philological subfields, including phonetics,
phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics,
stylistics, metrics, first and second language acquisition, foreign language
education, language contact, and language change, as well as differing
theoretical perspectives, are welcome. All abstracts will undergo anonymous
review.

Abstracts must be submitted electronically in PDF format by February 2,  2018.
Abstracts should be a maximum of one single-spaced page in length, and be
written in a standard 12-point font.  
They should be submitted through EasyAbstracts at
http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/glac2018




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